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"Miss Tianzi, please think about this carefully again. When that current priestess came to you, did she take anything from you? Or did she do anything to you?"

Inaba Tenshi thought for a moment and said, "No, she just saw me, took my hand, said a few words to me, and then left."

Morikawa Yu: "Could you please recall what she said to you?"

Tenshi Inaba nodded: "Of course."

She began to recall what the shrine maiden had said and repeated it, but Morikawa Yu and Mitsuko didn't notice anything amiss; it sounded similar to what Mitsuko had just told her.

Morikawa Yu: "Could it be that she took something from you?"

After all, the current priestess was holding Inaba Tenshi's hand while speaking, and it's very possible that she took the opportunity to do something underhanded.

"I don't think so," Inaba Tenshi said uncertainly. "I didn't feel like she did anything at the time."

"No!" Suddenly, Asaka walked up to Inaba Tenshi, leaned close to her, grabbed Inaba Tenshi's hand, and gently sniffed her arm.

"Your Majesty, where is that gentle medicinal fragrance on you? Isn't that the special divine power your mother passed down to you, which can be used to heal wounds?"

"I wanted to ask you this as soon as I saw you: why is the medicinal scent on you gone?"

"Huh? Is that all?" Inaba Tenshi paused for a moment, raised his other arm, and sniffed his arm and clothes. After thinking for a while, he realized that it seemed that some of the scent was missing.

Her body odor was mostly her natural scent. She was so used to her own body fragrance that she would never notice the medicinal and divine power mixed in with it. Instead, she would only notice the faint fragrance.

Moreover, this divine power was neither an innate divine power she possessed, nor a divine power she cultivated, but a divine power passed down to her by her mother.

She had never used it before, so she didn't notice anything.

Morikawa Yu approached her and said in a deep voice, "Miss Tianzi, can you tell us what that divine power is?"

Chapter 520 Great God

Inaba Tenshi thought for a moment and said, "Of course, my mother gave me a divine power that can heal people's wounds, mostly external ones. As long as it's not an internal injury, it can be used to heal them."

Morikawa Yu frowned: "And you just let it get taken away like that?"

“I…” Inaba Tenshi lowered his head.

"...I'm so sorry I didn't notice she took that divine power..."

Divine power is the source of a deity's power, and it is generally divided into the divine power inherited by the deity himself and the unclaimed divine power obtained from others.

The divine power of a god-king comes from the divine power inherited from the position of god-king. It belongs to the god-king and can be generated continuously. The unowned divine power acquired later comes from other divine powers that did not originally belong to the previous god-king during the divine power inheritance.

These divine powers were obtained from others by the previous God Lord, and through the nurturing of the previous God Lord, they gradually became the God Lord's own divine power.

However, during the transmission of divine power, this divine power will not directly become the divine power of the successor god, but will once again become ownerless divine power.

The god who receives the divine power inheritance needs to nurture and frequently use the newly acquired unclaimed divine power in order to transform it into his own divine power, just like the previous god.

Of course, if the current god-king passes on the divine power to the next god-king, then this divine power will still become godless.

This is how Inaba Tenshi obtained the divine power of medicinal fragrance.

The medicinal fragrance and divine power were divine powers that her mother received from others, not her own, and were later passed on to her.

After she accepted the position of the head of the gods and inherited the divine power, she had no interest in handling the affairs of the Inaba region, nor did she make much use of these unclaimed divine powers, leaving them behind.

As a result, this divine power was unknowingly taken away by the priestess...

Inaba Tenshi bowed his head.

Although she didn't care much about that divine power, she couldn't help but feel a little hot-faced, her cheeks turning slightly red.

Morikawa Yu sighed.

The shrine maiden took the medicinal fragrance and divine power from Tenshi Inaba, intending to use it as a "medium," though it's unclear what she plans to do with it.

This worried him somewhat.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Since the priestess took this divine power from the Empress, she must have a reason to use it, but I don't know what she intends to do with it."

Is there anything special about this divine power?

Tenshi Inaba: "A special place?"

She thought for a moment and said, "It doesn't seem to be anything special. It's just used to repair wounds, but it can dissolve the power belonging to others on the wounds and help people recover from their injuries."

Morikawa Yu frowned: "Isn't this already quite special?"

The ability to dissolve the power belonging to others on a wound is quite useful at a certain level.

Because the stronger the monster, the stronger its recovery ability is generally.

For example, the masked tsukumogami he fought before possessed the determination to "live," and its regenerative ability was beyond his imagination; even if it was chopped into pieces, it could quickly return to its original form.

Of course, its regenerative ability comes from its determination bonus. Ordinary high-ranking demons do not have such regenerative ability; they can only regenerate severed limbs and recover themselves within a certain period of time.

Only powerful demons like the Oni clan can achieve the same level of strength as it.

Those oni who become great demons can survive decapitation, and those who rise to the rank of great demon can recover from fatal injuries in a very short time.

Unless you use your own strength to continuously damage its wounds, it will recover quickly.

Putting aside other things, the passive true damage of [End of the Divine Era] that he gained after killing Inari is a power that continuously destroys divine targets.

With the added power of true damage, he successfully defeated Qingluo, who had transformed into a demon god of evil desires, even when his swordsmanship level was only that of a great swordsman.

The demon king Ibuki, who was injured by Qingluo at the time, was severely injured by Qingluo's demonic power, leaving him with incurable injuries and paralysis of his lower body. He is still in a wheelchair.

If this divine power is used to treat Ibuki, it may dissolve the demonic power left behind by Qingluo and heal Ibuki's injuries. However, if this divine power is in someone else's hands, it may be able to suppress his wind power and passive true injury.

After all, he usually relies on the wind and passive true damage to severely injure enemies, and then uses the wind to shatter their bodies and finish them off.

Morikawa Yu frowned: "Besides dissolving the power left by others on injuries, is there anything else special about it?"

He always felt that the priestess took the medicinal fragrance and its divine power not just for this particular property, since even though this property was powerful, it still took time to heal the injuries.

Every second is crucial in battle, and the offensive and defensive situations change rapidly. There is simply no time to unleash divine power to dissolve the opponent's power; such a thing can only be done after the battle is over.

"Hmm..." Inaba Tenshi thought for a moment, "What's even more special about it...?"

"The divine power my mother gave me came from a deity who has already vanished. Does that count as special? I don't think so."

Beside her, Mitsuko shook her head.

The idea that divine power comes from deities is not unusual; most of the divine power of local deities can be traced back to the gods.

The remaining divine power came from ghosts and gods.

After a powerful demon becomes a spirit, it is considered a kind of deity.

They purify and separate the power of ghosts and gods into divine power and demonic power. The divine power that follows is also divine power and can be passed down.

"God?"

Morikawa Yu suddenly showed an expression of interest: "Which god?"

Tenshi Inaba: "Let me think..."

"His name seems to be Ōkuninushi-no-Kami."

“Back when it was still the Age of Gods, the Inaba region wasn’t called Inaba Province yet, it was called Inaba Province. My mother was a yokai from Inaba Province, and she met Ōkuninushi, who came to Inaba Province to ask for my hand in marriage.”

"She was saved by the Ōkuninushi god and was very grateful to Him, helping Him with many things. Later, at the end of the Age of Gods, the great yokai of the Age of Gods, Shinori-sama, was hunting gods in the land of Izumo."

"He dwelled in the clouds everywhere and never came out of the clouds, thus escaping a calamity, but in the end he still perished and vanished."

"Before He passed away, He came to the land of Inaba and gave all His power and divine strength to His mother. This divine strength was one of the divine powers He gave to His mother."

"The supreme god of the great nation?" Morikawa Yu frowned in thought.

When he killed Inari and suffered a passive true injury to his divinity, he deliberately recalled some knowledge from his previous life, wanting to learn more about the ancient pantheon.

He remembered that in his previous life, the main god of this great nation was the main god of "Reed Plains China" in mythology.

Although He is a deity, He is not a Amatsukami of the Amaterasu lineage, but a local deity. Local deities are also known as Kunitsu-gami. "Ashihara no Nakatsu" is the present-day Izumo region.

Chapter 521 Inaba's Past

Legend has it that when He was young, He had eighty half-brother deities, and He was ostracized by these half-brother deities.

Later, upon hearing of the beauty of Princess Yagami of Inaba Province, the brothers proposed to her. However, when they left Izumo with their brother gods, they were forced to carry all the luggage and were left at the very back.

When He arrived in the Land of Inaba, He encountered a rabbit whose entire body had been skinned naked, and He healed the rabbit's wounds.

His brothers, the gods, had encountered this rabbit before, but instead of saving it, they toyed with it, telling it that washing its body in the sea and letting the wind dry it would cure it, which caused it great suffering.

To repay the great god of the Great Nation, this rabbit made a prophecy, saying that Princess Yagami of Inaba Province would not fall for his brother gods, but would be with him instead, and the prophecy came true.

Later, this Ōkuninushi passed Susanoo's test and married Susanoo's daughter, Princess Suseri, becoming Susanoo's son-in-law. With Susanoo's help, he defeated his brother gods, pacified the Izumo region, and established "Ashihara no Nakatsukuni" in Izumo. Susanoo then bestowed upon him the title of Ōkuninushi.

However, Susanoo's sister, Amaterasu Omikami, the lord of Takamagahara, took a fancy to the land of Izumo and sent gods to force Ōkuninushi to cede the country.

The god Ōkuninushi was terrified, so he ceded Izumo Province to Amaterasu Ōmikami and left Izumo Province.

Morikawa Yu thought for a moment, looked at Inaba Tenshi, and asked suspiciously, "Miss Tenshi, that white rabbit that was saved by Ōkuninushi, could it be your mother?"

Inaba Tenshi frowned unhappily: "It is indeed my mother."

"As I just mentioned, my mother was a yokai from the country of Inaba. She was saved by the god of the Great Ōkuninushi, and then made a prophecy to help him successfully find a wife."

"Before the Great God of the Ōkuninushi disappeared, my mother was collecting faith and cultivating demonic power in Inaba Province. Eventually, she became a demon god in Inaba Province. Her original name was Soto, but after becoming a demon god, she changed her name to Inaba Soto, and Inaba Province was also renamed Inaba Province."

Morikawa Yu: "And what about your mother?"

Inaba Tenshi's expression darkened: "She passed away and vanished. When my mother became a demon, it was near the end of the Age of Gods. Her power wasn't strong enough to separate her demonic power into divine and demonic power like Karasu no Kami-no-Kami, thus relinquishing her demonic status and becoming a god himself..."

Morikawa Yu: "Sorry."

He never expected that the White Rabbit Inaba would end up like this.

Moreover, it would be too cruel to make a child recall the scene of his mother's death and disappearance.

He paused for a moment, then changed the subject, tentatively asking, "So, your father is the Great God of the Ninja Kingdom?"

The god Ōkuninushi saved her mother and later returned to Inaba before disappearing, giving her divine power and authority, retaining only his divine position. He perished and disappeared along with his divine position, which made him somewhat suspicious of the relationship between the two.

“No.” Inaba Tenshi shook his head: “Although my mother respected Ōkuninushi very much, at that time she was just an ordinary white rabbit yokai with special talents and abilities, and she didn’t even have a human form.”

"Later, before the Great God of the Ninja Kingdom disappeared, he found his mother and gave her his divine power and authority. After his death, his mother gradually mastered his divine power and became a powerful demon. She had a human body, absorbed faith, and became a demon god."

“My father was just an ordinary human. He loved my mother very much. Even after he learned that she was a demon, he continued to pursue her. Hearing that my mother liked people who knew medicine, he studied medicine diligently and eventually became the most skilled doctor in Inaba at that time.”

"His mother was moved by him and was willing to be with him."

"But by then the Age of Gods was almost over, and the Great God of the Ninja Kingdom had been gone for more than two hundred years. My mother was worried that she would disappear like the Great God of the Ninja Kingdom, so she made a prophecy that she would die after my father and spend her life with him."

"As a result, my father died in a disaster not long after I was born."

“My mother raised me and was worried about my future. She sought advice from the then-Crow Feather God, and according to her teachings, she wanted to give up her status as a demon god and divide her demon power into divine power and demonic power to become a god.”

"But she was just a very weak spirit. In the end, she failed and disappeared. Before she disappeared, she managed to purify some divine power and demonic power, and gave them to me along with the power and divine power that the Great God had given her."

"When Princess Mitsuko heard about my mother and me, she specifically sought me out and brought me to Kyoto. After I mastered these divine powers, she sent me back to Inaba and appointed me as the head priest of the land of Inaba..."

Inaba Tenshi took a deep breath and turned his head to the side.

Upon hearing this, Morikawa Yu couldn't help but look at Mitsuko, and then at Asaka standing beside her.

It's estimated that Tenshi Inaba and Asaka met and became friends around that time.

He thought for a moment, wanting to ask again, but suddenly realized the atmosphere was a bit heavy, so he immediately stopped and changed the subject again: "Then are you a monster?"

He looked curiously at the fluffy rabbit ears on Inaba Tenshi's head and her long pink and white hair behind her.

Inaba Tenshi shook his head: "I'm a half-demon."

“My mother is a demon, and my father is a human. I have half demon blood and half human blood. However, the demon blood that my mother passed on to me is too strong, suppressing my human blood, so I look more like a demon.”

"However, I am indeed a half-demon."

“I can retract my ears and tail without using divine or demonic power, you see.”

She gently shook her head, and the fluffy white rabbit ears on her head disappeared instantly, leaving only her beautiful pink and white long hair.

Half-demon...

Morikawa Yu thought for a moment: "How old are you now?"

He had always been curious whether the lifespan of half-demons was as long as that of demons, without end.

Mitsuko gently stroked Inaba Tenshi's long, fluffy, pinkish-white hair, looking at him with a half-smile: "Darling, it's very impolite to ask a girl's age so abruptly."